Talbert v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

This is an action for damages for the killing of Clyde N. Lillard, a single man, aged twenty-three, brought in December, 1914, by the administrator of his estate, under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, for the benefit of his dependent mother, his only surviving parent. Lillard was a brakeman on a local freight train on a branch line of defendant's railway, and was killed on January 8, 1914, at Walter, Oklahoma, while engaged in interstate commerce, the company being an interstate commerce carrier. The case was tried to a jury at the January term, 1922, resulting in a verdict for…